4 Years.
I remember it like it was yesterday, I was having a lie in so the news had already broke before I'd even woken up. As usual the first thing I did that morning was check my phone and there it was a text from Hollie… "Cory's dead"
I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought to myself; maybe she's talking about some footballer I've never heard of.
So naturally the first thing I did was open google and type his name in. Instantly my heart shattered, I sat and stared at my phone. I didn't know what to do or say.
How could this happen?
I was devastated.
This was the second celebrity death to truly hurt me like this. And to think of how close these deaths were, I couldn't handle it.
It'd been just over a year since Whitney passed and now Cory. I was so angry to think the universe had taken these amazing human beings who I'd idolised for as long as I could remember. As a child, I grew up listening to Whitney, I have so many great memories of singing and dancing round the living room with my mum to her music. I'd seen all her films, knew every song and every detail about her life. But in the blink of an eye she was gone.
2009.
What a year I'd been having. My parents were getting divorced, my brother was moving out, my uncle had cancer and I was being bullied. But one Monday afternoon I turned the TV on and saw this show called Glee was going to be on later that evening. I thought; well there's nothing else on I'll give it a shot.
And that was it, I was hooked. For that hour, every week I had something to take me away from all the torment in my life. I grew into an adult with Glee, with Cory. For those 6 years, I found a family within the Glee fandom; we laughed, we cried and we sang together. But during all our joy and their success, we faced the greatest loss and confusion.
What did all this mean? Was Glee over?
I am so grateful that as fandom we got closure and acknowledgment of Fin as well as Cory.
4 Years Later
Although I and many others still miss Cory, I know that he is looking down on us; making jokes, singing, dancing like only he could and of course playing those mighty drums. Life goes on.
He would be so proud of all that Lea has achieved. I know I am.
We miss you Quarterback.
